MCOM 353 - Multimedia News and Information

(3 S.H.)

This class will prepare students for working in a multimedia newsroom. Students will be introduced to topics related to multimedia journalism, including new media professions, online reporting, audio, video and web storytelling and package formats and basic multimedia design. Students will learn how to report and produce an edited online package using audio, video and photo together with text to tell a story. Students will use what they have learned in earlier MCOM courses to research, photograph, video record, audio record, write, edit and publish multi-media stories. Students will be responsible for story development that has the potential of airing on WSU’s media outlets. Prerequisites: MCOM 173 - Audio and Video Production, MCOM 274 - Creative Digital Audio-Video Production, or instructor permission. Grade only. Offered when demand warrants.

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